A hallmark of fascist societies is the denial of free speech.
And now that is happening on some college campuses.
At the University of Missouri, President Timothy Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin have both resigned because some students there say they did not do enough about alleged racism.
There is no question that unruly students at Mizzou, as it is called, are running wild:
University of Missouri, Nov. 9
PROTESTER: "You think it's funny? You need to move."
TIM TAI, REPORTER: "I have a job to do! I'm documenting this for a national news organization."
PROTESTER: "I don't care. You cannot be in front of them like this."
TAI: "Yes I can! This is the First Amendment. It protects your right to stand here and it protects mine!"
((EDIT))
PROTESTER: "I'm walking forward. I'm walking forward." (THE PROTESTERS START WALKING TOWARD TAI IN A WALL, PUSHING HIM AWAY FROM THE PROTEST AREA)
2ND PROTESTER: "Yeah, start walking forward."
TAI: "You're pushing me! You're pushing me!"
2ND PROTESTER (SARCASTIC): "Oh I'm being pushed. I don't have a choice."
3RD PROTESTER (TO TAI): "You're not doing your job!"
4th PROTESTER: "It's our right to walk forward isn't it? I believe it's my right to walk forward."
((EDIT))
MARK SCHIERBECKER, STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHER: "I'm media, can I talk to you?"
MELISSA CLICK, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MASS MEDIA AT UNIV. OF MISSOURI: "No, you need to get out! You need to get out!"
SCHIERBECKER: "No, I don't."
CLICK (STARTS TO GRAB SCHIERBECKER'S CAMERA): "You need to get out!"
SCHIERBECKER: "I actually don't."
CLICK (YELLING): "All right, hey who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here!"
That woman you just saw is a University of Missouri professor named Melissa Click.
How disgraceful is that?
At Yale hundreds of students marched across campus to protest what they see as racial insensitivity at the Ivy League school.
The "March of Resilience." as the demonstration was called, arose after the Yale Intercultural Affairs Committee warned students not to wear racially insensitive Halloween costumes.
A Yale administrator -- Erika Christakis, who oversees a residence hall as an associate master -- objected to the memo, saying it interrupted freedom of expression.
Her husband, also a Yale employee, then had to defend her from an onslaught of criticism.
STUDENT: "By sending out that email, that goes against your position as master. Do you understand that?"
NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS, MASTER OF YALE'S SILLIMAN COLLEGE AND WIFE OF ERIKA CHRISTAKIS: "No, I don't agree with that."
STUDENT (SCREAMING): "Then why the f*** did you accept the position?!?! Who the f*** hired you?!"
CHRISTAKIS: "I have a different vision than you ..."
STUDENT (SCREAMING): "Then you should step down. If that's what you think about being Master, then you should step down. It is not about creating an intellectual space. It is not. Do you understand that? It is about creating a home here. You are not doing that!"
Now we have seen the rise of intolerance on American campuses for years.
Recently the president of the University of Louisville had to apologize for this picture.
He and his friends dressed in festive Mexican garb for Halloween.
The picture was called racist by some on the Louisville campus.
That picture racist?
So the next time I go into a Mexican restaurant and someone is wearing a sombrero, I can cry racism?
That's how absurd this whole thing has become.
Rush Limbaugh made an interesting point on his radio program, saying that for years American college students had been taught that their country is racist, a terrible place and now the students are acting out.
The nutty college professors have reaped what they've sown.
They are no doubt encouraged by groups like Black Lives Matter and other radical concerns.
Of course the same thing happened during the Vietnam War.
When I was a senior at Marist College I was walking to class and was blocked by a radical student who told me no one would be going to classes that day.
Ordinarily that would have been a big bonus for me, but because this guy was intruding on my freedom to make a decision, it did not end well for him.
I attended the history class.
There comes a point when freedom of speech expression movement and thought must be defended.
We have reached that point now.
Get it Yale? Get it University of Missouri?
And that's the memo.
